Told against the fourth-century backdrop of the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity, The Saint's Mistress breathes life into the previously untold story of Saint Augustine and his mistress.
A s a small child, Kathryn Bashaar earned the nickname Suitcase Simpson, for the little suitcase of books that she carried with her everywhere. Starting at age 11, she developed her own writing by keeping a journal. All 53 years of those journals still live in a closet in her home in Pittsburgh. Kathryn's fiction and nonfiction have been published in Civil War Times, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the literary journals Metamorphosis and PIF. Infamy, won an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's 2014 shorts-short fiction contest. She lives in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.